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GreenStormCloud

(12,072 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:34 PM Sep 2013

Gun Geo Marker iphone/Android app has been disabled.

A few weeks ago an anti-gun person had a really stupid idea. He originated an iphone/Android app that allowed a person to anonymously designated any address as a place where there was a dangerous gun owner. Although the app claimed that it was to be used only to designate truly dangerous individuals who owned guns, there were no controls of any kind on the process. As a lark, I downloaded the app and occasionally checked it to see if any address were so labeled. The app only checked close to the GPS location of the iphone at the time it was accessed. You couldn't check other places. No addresses ever showed up as checked that I could see. Recently, the app failed to work.

I discovered that the author of the app had disabled it. Instead the app now lists samples of the hostile messages he has received. Naturally, he has selected the most venomous of the messages to display.

It seems that he received multiple threats of lawsuits from people who were falsely labeled as being dangerous to have a gun.

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Gun Geo Marker iphone/Android app has been disabled. (Original Post) GreenStormCloud Sep 2013 OP
was one of them George Zimmerman? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #1
OMG that was the same thing that went through my head, followed by gopiscrap Sep 2013 #2
don't forget the Nuge! VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #3
No kidding gopiscrap Sep 2013 #5
Charlton Heston has Jenoch Sep 2013 #6
yeah but he always comes to mind gopiscrap Sep 2013 #8
Unknown and unknowable. All data has been wiped. N/T GreenStormCloud Sep 2013 #4
Was one Maya Angelou? Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #9
Or Rachel Maddow? Lizzie Poppet Sep 2013 #10
IIRC, Rachel rents hers gejohnston Sep 2013 #11
Curious, they seem to get along, too. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #12
The who wrote the app is an idiot. Jenoch Sep 2013 #7
Was it on their "Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" album? Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #13

gopiscrap

(23,726 posts)
2. OMG that was the same thing that went through my head, followed by
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:44 PM
Sep 2013

Wayne Pierre Lafollette and Charlton Heston

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
11. IIRC, Rachel rents hers
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 02:18 PM
Sep 2013

at a Manhattan range. Susan's (Rachel's partner) NRA member sister on the other hand......

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